# Query\_string with datetime

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-with-datetime/257271>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 1, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-with-datetime/257271 "2020-12-01T20:10:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![spreet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spreet/32/67370_2.png) [@spreet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spreet)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-with-datetime/257271/1 "2020-12-01T20:10:07Z")

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We recently migrated to ES 7.1 from 5.8. In the previous version query\_string with a datetime used to work.

Query with date and time

```auto
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "query": "data.lastUpdateTime:[* TO 2018-11-20T04:59:59Z]"
    }
  }
}

```

Output : 0 results

Query without time

```auto
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "query": "data.lastUpdateTime:[* TO 2018-11-20]"
    }
  }
}

```

Output: results returned as expected but we need to filter them by time

We do support multiple date formats for this field. Here is the mapping for this field:

```auto
"lastUpdateTime": {
                            "type": "date",
                            "format": "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy||yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS||yyyy-MM-dd||yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ||epoch_millis||yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX||yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXX||yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX||EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yy||EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yy"
                        }

```

Can you please advise on how to use query\_string with datetime?

{{Preet}}

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-with-datetime/257271/2 "2020-12-29T20:10:19Z")

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